That Which You Believe Becomes Your World

I Hate It When Something I've Had Published "inspires" Some Nut To Imitate What I've Written, Or Some Teacher Gets Fired For Having Her Students Read One Of My Stories Or Novels.

A Surfeiting Of Terror Soon Made Terror A Cliché.

And, Before Science Had Caught Up With The Legend, The Legend Had Swallowed Science And Everything.

Not Only Did I Rediscover Every Experience Of My Life, I Had To Live Each Unfulfilled Desire As Well—as Though They’d Been Fulfilled. I Saw That What Transpires In The Mind Is Just As Real As Any Flesh And Blood Occurrence. What Had Only Been Imagination In Life, Now Became Tangible, Each Fantasy A Full Reality. I Lived Them All—while, At The Same Time, Standing To The Side, A Witness To Their, Often, Intimate Squalor. A Witness Cursed With Total Objectivity.

It Is My Conviction That Basic Reality Is Not All That Perplexing. What Seems Difficult To Assimilate Are The Manifold Details Of Reality, Not Its Fundamental Elements.